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The Eurovision Song Contest faces what experts call a "watershed moment" Thursday, as members of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) may vote on whether Israel will be allowed to compete in 2026, Reuters reported.

Jewish organizations in New York City will hold a solidarity rally on Thursday near Park East Synagogue, weeks after a controversial anti-Israel protest targeted an Aliyah event at the synagogue.

Israel is preparing for a significant escalation in Lebanon following Hezbollah's continued military buildup in the country, Kan News reported.

Malcolm Hoenlein, the Executive Vice Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations in the United States, expressed deep concern at the Israel Hayom Conference in New York over the demographic shift working against the Jewish people and the American Jewish community.

Former European Union (EU) foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini was taken into custody Tuesday as Belgian police staged raids in Brussels and Bruges over suspected fraud tied to contracts for training future European diplomats, AFP reported.

US President Donald Trump's envoy to Lebanon, Morgan Ortagus, arrived in Israel on Tuesday and began her visit with a series of meetings with senior political and security officials.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to decide in the coming days who will succeed Mossad Director David Barnea, Kan 11 News reported Tuesday evening.

The Trump administration announced Tuesday it has paused all immigration applications, including green cards and US citizenship processing, for immigrants from 19 non-European countries, citing national security and public safety concerns, Reuters reported.

The man accused of shooting two National Guardsmen, killing one, appeared virtually in D.C. Superior Court Tuesday to face a charge of first-degree murder, NBC News reported.

Two survivors of Hamas captivity, Guy Gilboa-Dalal and Evyatar David, spoke on Tuesday at the Israel Hayom Conference in New York about the impossible conditions they endured in Hamas tunnels.

Lawyers for the UK government on Tuesday defended the ban on activist group Palestine Action under anti-terror laws, as three days of hearings concluded at the High Court in London, AFP reported.

Philippine authorities announced Tuesday that nine Filipino crew members held by Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis are set to be released, AFP reported.

The UN General Assembly on Tuesday adopted a resolution demanding that Israel withdraw from the Golan Heights and declaring that its so-called "occupation" of the territory is "illegal."

Robert Besser is a news editor who has worked in television and newspapers in the United States, Asia and the Middle East.

Soldiers from the 202nd Battalion of the Paratroopers Brigade on Tuesday morning eliminated the terrorist who carried out the ramming attack several hours earlier at the Judea Junction.

A terrorist stabbed two individuals on Tuesday morning at a spring outside the town of Ateret in the Binyamin region. The two victims suffered minor wounds.

Threat Analyst Ken Abramowitz is author of "The Multifront War" and head of Save the West.

A female soldier was lightly wounded on Monday evening in a car-ramming attack on Highway 35, near the Judea Junction in the Hebron area.

Rahmanullah Lakanwal left his home in Bellingham, Washington, on the West Coast of the United States, leaving behind his wife and five children, and drove across the United States to New York, where he ambushed a group of National Guard soldiers, killing one and wounding another.

The Trump administration is voicing concern that Israel's repeated strikes inside Syria risk destabilizing the country and undermining hopes for an Israel-Syria security agreement, two senior US officials told Barak Ravid of Axios on Monday.

The government of Saudi Arabia has transferred an additional financial grant of $90 million to the Palestinian Authority (PA) as part of its 2025 aid package.

Syria published the first print issue of the official Al Thawra Al Souriya newspaper on Monday, the latest government-owned media outlet to be launched since the fall of longtime ruler Bashar Al-Assad, AFP reported.

Former minister Haim Ramon, who served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice, shared his position in an interview with Radio 103FM regarding the possibility of a pardon for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The American Jewish Committee (AJC) on Monday welcomed the move by the Dublin City Council to withdraw a proposal to rename Herzog Park, which honors Chaim Herzog, the sixth president of Israel.

British actor and comedian John Cleese, famed for "Monty Python" and "Fawlty Towers", told the London Jewish News he was "extremely sorry" for posting anti-Israel material online without checking it.

Two 16-year-olds, including a Russian national of Chechen origin, have been placed in custody in Paris on suspicion of plotting an antisemitic attack, AFP reported on Monday, citing judicial and press sources.

The Trump administration is investigating whether Minnesota tax money was diverted to Al-Shabaab, a US-designated terror group and Al-Qaeda affiliate in Somalia, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday, according to CBS News.

Under the leadership of the Trump Administration, Israel has been chosen as one of eight key countries invited to a White House meeting on December 12, alongside Japan, South Korea, Singapore, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, and Australia.

IDF soldiers, along with the Civil Administration, operated on Monday at the buildings of the Local Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) organization in Ramallah and Hebron.

Miami-based HIG Capital has agreed to sell Project Informatica, its Italian information technology services portfolio company, to EMK Capital, marking a profitable exit from an investment that grew revenues fourfold during the holding period.